When I jumped into entrepreneurship, I was a
pastor. So I figured I could start with a Christian life-coaching offer. Only one problem: I believed Christians were broke!
My mentality was that people who are Christians will not pay thousands of dollars for anything. They barely pay for books! And they think that’s a huge investment. They’re not going to pay $1K.
One day, when talking with my mentor, Myron Golden, he said, “Oh, that’s easy. Can I coach you for a moment?”
Um, absolutely, I thought.
He said, “People don’t buy what they can afford. They buy what they want! People buy for one reason and one reason only, they buy because they feel like buying.”
This is true, and this is true even if it’s expensive.
Cars, luxury purchases, computers, gear, you name it! If they want it, they will figure out how to pay for it. Even if people have to go borrow the money, understand this:
Internal buying pressure causes external purchases.
If you reveal the value inside your offer, people can’t help but buy!
Like call-their-grandma, visit-nine-banks, forgo-home-renovations, make-it-happen kind of buying…
It doesn’t matter what your niche is. Why?
Because there are people in your niche. And people buy for one reason and one reason only:
Because they feel like buying.
What I’ve learned is that my old thinking—
Christians can’t afford my thing—was just a story I was telling myself.
The story I replaced it with?
People need what I have to offer. They can’t wait to buy from me.
As soon as they hear this offer, they’re going to run to buy it!
And if you aren’t quite there, yet?
No need to believe anything. Borrow my belief!
There are billions of buyers in the world.
Millions who need your thing.
Hundreds of thousands who are willing and able to pay a premium to get your expertise.
There is no lack of premium buyers.
But if you don’t have a premium offer, you’ll never reach them!